Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 117 | Rotten: 17
Visually beautiful and well-acted, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells a compelling true-life story.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 4
Visually beautiful and well-acted, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells a compelling true-life story.
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After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When European settlers first arrived in Australia, there was an almost immediate conflict between the recent arrivals and the nation's indigenous people, whose rich cultural heritage which bore little resemblance to that of the Europeans. By the mid-19th
Nov 29, 2002 Limited
Apr 15, 2003
$6.0M
Miramax Films
All Critics (150) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (121) | Rotten (17) | DVD (19)
[Director Phillip] Noyce shows their awful, eventually uplifting journey without flinching, and the arid Australian wilderness is a co-star of the film.
Noyce trusts the power of the story to move us. He knows that, like the girls themselves, we'll find our way along Rabbit-Proof Fence.
It certainly has its moving moments.
The final shot in the film is one that you won't soon forget.
Searing dramatization of a story of remarkable courage, stamina and spirit.
Many movies claim to illuminate the human spirit, but Rabbit-Proof Fence actually delivers.
strongest aspect rests with the educational value of its subject
Powerful drama about racism ok for tweens and up.
Such an amazing true story leaves many opportunities for overblown melodrama, but Noyce's naturalistic restraint is what makes the film resonate so strongly.
This true story of some gutsy aboriginee girls who made a daring escape to home across thousands of miles of Australian outback, lyrically inspires and invigorates the human spirit.
Packs such an emotional wallop that it leaves you reeling...It may be one of the greatest movies ever made about the "white man's burden."
The grievous truth of what was done to these people, rather than for them, hits viewers hard in the film's unforgettable conclusion....
Adotando uma estrutura narrativa extremamente simples, Noyce conta a história de forma envolvente e emocionante.
There is value in bringing this dark passage in Australia's history to light.
'Noyce logra su mejor trabajo hasta la fecha, demostrando que lo único que se necesita es la sensibilidad para contar una historia conmovedora y profundamente humana'
A tedious, labored affair that's only not boring when it's laughably over the top.
Phillip Noyce makes us cry not at the way human determination triumphs, but how its mere existence can keep us going through seemingly insurmountable odds.
Rabbit-Proof Fence is visually stunning, well-acted film telling of the racism by the British against the Aboriginal peoples of Australia in the 1930's. It's an emotional, heart-breaking jouney enhanced by a haunting and beautiful score by Peter Gabriel.
March 25, 2011Super Reviewer
A powerful true story revealing a time in Australian history known as "The Stolen Nation". A gutsy focus on one family and their courage to evade their government forced destinies. Great perforrmances all around.
October 19, 2006Super Reviewer
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